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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky[vusE´lyE undrA´uvich zhOOkOf´skE] Pronunciation Key, 1783–1852, Russian poet and translator.
Zhukovsky wrote fine lyrics and odes, including the patriotic poem "The Bard in the Camp of the Russian Warriors" (1812), but is important chiefly for his translations.
Zhukovsky was tutor to the future Czar Alexander II, who was influenced by his liberal ideas.
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 Vasily Zhukovsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (29 Jan/9 Feb 1783, Mishenskoe near Tula - 12/24 Apr 1852, Baden-Baden} was the foremost Russian poet and translator of the 1810s.
Zhukovsky was particularly admired for his first-rank melodious translations of German and English ballads.
Such a great influence he had on the tsesarevich, that the liberal reforms of the 1860s are sometimes attributed to the influence of Zhukovsky's education.
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Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (Иван Андреевич Крылов in Russian) (February 13, 1769 - November 21, 1844) was a famous Russian fabulist.
Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (alternatively spelled Vassily, Vasiliy, Russian language: Василий Гроссман), December 12, 1905 – September 14, 1964, was a prominent Soviet-era writer and journalist.
Vasily Aksyonov is a Russian novelist who began his career in the Soviet era.
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Zhukovsky, Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky, Vasily Andreyevichvesē´lyē endrā´evĬch zhookôf´skē, 1783-1852, Russian poet and translator.
Vasily III Vasily III (Vasily Ivanovich)vesē´lyē ēvä´nevĬch, 1479-1533, grand duke of Moscow (1505-33).
Suslov, Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov, Mikhail Andreyevichmēkheyēl´ endrā´yevĬch sooslôf´, 1902-82, Soviet politician and ideologist.
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Tredyakovsky, Vasily Kirilovich Tredyakovsky, Vasily Kirilovichvesē´lyē kĬrē´levĬch trĕdyekôf´skē, 1703-69, Russian poet, translator, and scholar.
Perov, Vasily Grigoryevich Perov, Vasily Grigoryevichvesē´lyē grĬgôr´yevĬch pyĬrôf´, 1833-82, Russian historical, genre, and portrait painter.
Klyuchevsky, Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky, Vasily Osipovichvesē´lyē ô´sĬpevĬch klyoochĕv´skē, 1841-1911, Russian historian.
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Vasily Perov was an illegitimate son of the baron G. Kridiner, an Arzamas prosecutor.
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov was born in Krasnoyarsk into a family of Siberian Cossacks, whose ancestors came to conquer Siberia with Yermak in the 16th century (The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak).
Vasily Tropinin was one of the major Russian artists active in the first half of the XIX century.
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (29 Jan. 1783, Mishenskoe near Tula - 12 Apr. 1852, Baden-Baden} was the foremost Russian poet and translator of the 1810s.
By that time, he discontinued writing original verse and concentrated his efforts on translating Homer's Odyssey (printed in 1849).
Vasily Zhukovsky (Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 271 : Russia)
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 Zhukovsky, Vasily Andreyevich --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Zhukovsky, the illegitimate son of a landowner and a Turkish slave girl, was educated in Moscow.
Succeeding his father, Ivan III (ruled Moscow 1462–1505), Vasily completed his father's policy of consolidating the numerous independent Russian principalities into a united Muscovite state by annexing Pskov (1510), Ryazan (1517), and Starodub and Novgorod-Seversk (now Novgorod-Seversky) by 1523.
Starodubtsev, Vasily A. (born 1931), hard-line Soviet politician; little-known member of Central Committee Communist party; chairman of Farmers' Union; in Aug. 1991 he was one of the “gang of 8” (state-of-emergency committee that tried to oust President Mikhail Gorbachev and take over the government); disappeared after coup failed; then arrested and charged with high treason.
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 Zhukovski, Vasili Andreevich - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Zhukovski, Vasili Andreevich
Zhukovski was tutor to Tsar Alexander II and often used his influence at the court to intercede for opponents of the regime.
He introduced the genres of the elegy and the ballad into Russian literature, and made excellent translations of Schiller, Byron, Thomas Gray, Walter Scott, Goethe, and Homer.
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Zhukovsky, Vasily Andreyevich: 1783-1852, Russian poet and translator.
Zhukovsky wrote fine lyrics and odes, including the patriotic poem andldquor;The Bard in the Camp of the Russian Warriorsandrdquor; (1812), but is important chiefly for his translations.
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783 - 1852), poèt russe qui a écrit l'anthem nati.
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He served in the Napoleonic War of 1812 and in 1815 joined the tsar's entourage, becoming tutor to the heir to the throne in 1826.
Zhukovsky was a follower of Nikolay Karamzin, the head of a Romantic literary movement that countered the classical emphasis on reason with the belief that poetry should be an expression of feeling.
Zhukovsky was a founder of the Arzamas society, a semihumorous, pro-Karamzin literary group established to oppose the classicists.
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 Arzamas society --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Russian literary circle that flourished in 1815–18 and was formed for the semiserious purpose of ridiculing the conservative “Lovers of the Russian Word,” a group dominated by the philologist Aleksandr S. Shishkov, who wished to keep the modern Russian language firmly tied to Old Church Slavonic.
The Arzamas circle included the poets Vasily A. Zhukovsky, Konstantin Batyushkov…
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The song was chosen from a competition held in 1833.
The composer was violinist Prince Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov, and the lyrics were by the Romantic court poet Vasily Zhukovsky.
It served until 1917, when the Russian Revolution overthrew the Tsarist monarchy and adopted The Internationale as the new national anthem.
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Vasily V. Dokuchaev (1846-1903), the founder of the modern soil science
Friedrich Wilhelm Struve (Vasily Yakovlevich Struve) (1793-1864), astronomer
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (1900 -1982), commanded the 62nd Russian army to victory at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky Definition / Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky Research
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (29 JanJanuary 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
There are 336 days remaining, (337 in leap years).
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Vasily Degtyarev was the one to head the first Soviet firearms design bureau.
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He served in the Napoleonic War of 1812 and in 1815 joined the tsar's entourage, becoming in 1826 tutor to the heir to the throne, the future Aleksandr II [29 Apr 1818 – 13 Mar 1881].
Zhukovsky was a follower of Nikolay Karamzin [12 Dec 1766 – 03 Jun 1826], the head of a Romantic literary movement that countered the classical emphasis on reason with the belief that poetry should be an expression of feeling.
His first publication was a translation of An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard (1802) of Thomas Gray [], and the bulk of his work consists of free translations.
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Also set in Russian by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), "K mojej pesne", op.
Also set in Russian by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), "Iz sljoz mojikh mnogo, maljutka, rodilos' dushistykh cvetov", op.
Text by Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783-1852), 1836, after Joseph Christian Freiherrn von Zedlitz (1796-1869), "Die nächtliche Heerschau".
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Prince Dimitry Romanov, in turn, believes that the initiative for reburying Maria Fyodorovna must, from the point of view of law, originate from her direct descendant, eldest grandson of her daughter Ksenia, Mikhail Andreyevich (now living in Australia).
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Zenea Fornaris, Juan Clemente Born: 1832, Died: 1871, 1 poems
Zhukovsky, Vasily Andreyevich Born: 1783, Died: 1852, 6 poems
Zorrilla y Moral, Jose Born: 1817, Died: 1893
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